Episode 61: “The Lie Of The Land”

There's not much Doctor Who news this week, give or take word that Rachel Talalay is directing Peter Capaldi's Christmas swansong, so we get straight into this week's episode. Which... well. Hmm. This one was disappointing! We're both big fans of the first third of the episode or so, but then "The Lie Of The Land" just seems to keep abandoning its own most intriguing ideas. Are Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, and Michelle Gomez actually too good for this episode? Can someone shoot the Doctor and then just kind of brush it off like it never happened? Shouldn't the Doctor or Bill actually, you know, talk to the Monks at some point? This wasn't a truly bad episode, but yeah, this was a misstep.